Maud is an irascible 88-year-old Swedish woman with no family, no friends, and... no qualms about a little murder. This funny, irreverent story collection by Helene Tursten, author of the Irene Huss i
The Scandinavian crime fiction sensation with more than than half a million copies in printNina Borg, a Danish Red Cross nurse, wife, and mother of two, is a compulsive dogooder who can’t say no when
Mario Silva, a Brazilian police inspector, investigates the kidnapping of the teenage grandaughter of a prominient politician and desperately tries to find her before she is lost to an international r
“This series kickoff is an embarrassment of riches: Holmesian sleuthing, political satire, and [a] droll comic study of a prickly late bloomer.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)“The sights, smells, and
The debut of Marshal Salvatore Guarnaccia of the Carabinieri, a Sicilian, stationed in Florence. It is just before Christmas and the marshal wants to go South to spend the holiday with his wife and
Almost twenty years after the end of the Korean War, the U.S. Military is still present throughout South Korea, and tensions run high. Koreans look for any opportunity to hate the soldiers who drink a
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